INFINITY

Combining the beautiful with the bizarre, the elegant with the extreme, the classical with camp, Levchenko's edgy "INFINITY" digital images cast human identity as exquisite corpse, the surrealist spirit of transformation that fueled the historical imaginary and which has become, more than ever, a sustaining aesthetic principle of our time. With process and production conceived as a Möbius strip of interlinking subjects, techniques, and mediums, their oeuvre inhabits adjacent visual systems while resisting confinement to any single one. Often their more experimental artwork acts as grist for commercial commissions and vice versa; hierarchy is ignored and the same images may appear in different incarnations according to context. Using the digital medium as the very tool of the uncanny, Yaroslav seeks ever new ways to suggest the complex internal dynamics that lie beneath appearances, sometimes even cutting through the seamless surface of the photograph via graphic or sculptural means.